Category Archives: Growth

Australian product provides new window on local economic performance

Posted on 1 September, 2009 by Alex

Melbourne-based firm .id (informed decisions) have just launched economy.id, an online economic profile to “describe, explore and promote” local economies. economy.id joins the .id stable of profiles and other web-based programs, including profile.id, atlas.id, forecast.id and housing.id. .id’s main client … Continue reading →

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How is NSW growing? Part 3: Sydney’s employment growth 1996 to 2006

Posted on 21 July, 2009 by Alex

In my last post I looked at the snapshot of Sydney’s 33 largest employment centres provided by the NSW Transport Data Centre (TDC) in its Employment and Commuting in Sydney’s Centres, 1996 – 2006, based on the Metropolitan Strategy centres … Continue reading →

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How is NSW growing? – part 1: Sydney metropolitan area

Posted on 3 June, 2009 by Alex

Recently the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the estimated resident population figures for states, local government areas (LGAs) and statistical local areas (SLAs) as at 30 June 2008 (see ABS publication 3218.0). These figures have major implications for governments, councils … Continue reading →

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